Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup & Journey through Boliva

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the resources mashup, a journey through Boliva, and what’s coming up on kikolani.com.

The Resources Mashup

Here are some of the best articles I have stumbledupon this week.

Blogging / Writing

• 5 reasons to guest post
• Optimize a single post for SEO on your blog
• Successful guest posting strategy
• Perception is important to your blogging career
• DIY blog post graphics for non designers

Business / Finance

• Stop thinking you’re going to fail just because someone says you should
• 4 life saving tips for small businesses
• Web analytics reporting for small businesses
• Do you know your customers enough to be a social media hit
• Top 5 ways to market your business with LinkedIn

Graphic / Web Design

• 50 cartoon character design tutorials
• 80 extreme advertisements that will challenge your mind
• 11 essential tips for designers
• eCommerce design resources – the ultimate roundup

Make Money Online

• Optimize that conversion rate before it’s too late
• Unlock your marketing genius to make money online
• QueryAds – the Adsense alternative
• Google Adsense publishers say earnings are down
• 5 landing page tips to boost conversion rates

Personal Development / Self Improvement / Health

• Unchain yourself from conventional thinking myths
• 7 personal development lessons – Kung Fu panda style
• What does balance mean to you – the work life balance
• How to be selfish in a good way
• 5 methods to cut down negative thinking

Photography / Digital Art

• Beautiful black and white photography of animals
• 25 breathtaking underwater photographs
• Create tilt shift miniature effect in Photoshop
• 35 stunning examples of HDR photography
• Black and white long exposure photography

Search Engines / SEO

• SEO Chrome extension – comprehensive view of page and domain data
• How Google’s algorithm rules the web
• Infographic – the Google story
• Link building vs. link marketing
• 3 steps to optimizing content for long tail keywords

Social Media

• Multiple personality social media
• Social media impact of Google Buzz
• Art of communicating in social networks
• 10 awesome social media presentations by thought leaders in the industry
• How to use Google Analytics on your Facebook fan page

Tech / Security

• Windows Phone 7 series WP7S overview
• Firefox 3.6 exploit could be causing browser crashes
• 3 best Twitter apps for Droid
• 10 Google chrome extensions for web developers
• PCs, Macs, and security

WordPress

• 12 amazing BuddyPress themes and getting started guides
• How to make the sidebar list dynamic in Thesis
• 14 Flickr plugins for WordPress
• 60 of the latest high quality free WordPress themes

Coming Up on the Kikolani Network

Next week, I’ll be changing gears a bit to take a look at creating productive to do lists with some social media examples, plus a guest post TBD.

Salar de Uyuni, Boliva

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This post brought to you by Kristi Hines

Kristi is a blogger, freelance writer, online marketing consultant, and social media enthusiast. Connect with me on Twitter and Google+.

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